Thomas Hampson (1839 – 25 November 1918) was an English author and
local historian
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Life
He was born in
Horwich
Horwich ( ) is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. Prior to 1974 in the historic county of Lancashire. It is southeast of Chorley, northwest of Bolton and northwest of Manchester. It l ...
in 1839, the youngest child of Henry and Mary Hampson.
He was baptised at
Holy Trinity Church, Horwich
Holy Trinity Church, commonly known as Horwich Parish Church, is a Grade II listed building in Horwich, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Church of England parish church and part of the Deane deanery in the archdeaconry of Bolton, dioc ...
on 10 November 1839. His father died in May 1842, leaving his mother to bring up the children on her own.
He started work at
Wallsuches bleach works in Horwich when he was seven-years-old. He married Sarah Jane Aldred at Holy Trinity Church, Horwich on 2 April 1866.
They had three sons: John Henry, John Fox, and Benjamin, and three daughters: Clara, Mary Ann, and Eleanor.
After his marriage, he continued to be employed at the bleach works as a
finisher,
but between 1877 and 1881 he lost a number of fingers on his left hand in a works accident which seems to have forced him into a clerical career.
He was a secretary at the short-lived Red Moss Ironworks, Horwich. Then employed as a cashier, first at Scot Lane Colliery,
Blackrod
Blackrod is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, northeast of Wigan and west of Bolton. At the United Kingdom Census 2011, it had a population of 5,001.
Historically part of Lancashire, ...
, then at Fourgates Colliery,
Wingates,
Westhoughton
Westhoughton ( ) is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, southwest of Bolton, east of Wigan and northwest of Manchester.[Horwich Works
Horwich Works was a railway works built in 1886 by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (LYR) in Horwich, near Bolton, in North West England when the company moved from its original works at Miles Platting, Manchester.
Buildings
Horwich Works ...]
were built by the
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (L&YR) was a major British railway company before the 1923 Grouping. It was incorporated in 1847 from an amalgamation of several existing railways. It was the third-largest railway system based in northern ...
(L&YR) in 1886, he was employed as a labourer in the iron foundry,
then as a locomotive stores keeper.
His wife, Sarah Jane, died in April 1907, aged 64,
and eleven years later Thomas died at
Bolton Royal Infirmary on 25 November 1918, aged 79. They are both buried in Holy Trinity Churchyard, Horwich.
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External links
Horwich: Its History, Legends, and Church(archive.org)
History of Rivington(archive.org)
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1839 births
1918 deaths
People from Horwich
English local historians